Thus, last month the official unemployment rate fell by 0.1 percentage points to 1.2%. Such data was presented on Wednesday, August 16, by the State Statistical Service.
According to the statistical office as of August 1 this year, the State Employment Service registered 319.9 thousand unemployed.
At the same time, the number of unemployed who received state aid in July amounted to 256.9 thousand people. At the given moment the average size of the allowance per unemployed is 2,040 UAH.
Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in June 2017 the official unemployment rate remained at the level of May at 1.3%.